Bloomington, Indiana University, Bloomington, Lilly Library at Indiana University, Medieval and Renaissance 15. Text(s): Liber gestorum barlaam et Josaphat, Incipit liber gestorum Barlaam & Iosaphat servorum dei, editus greco sermone a iohanne damasceno, Table of Contents. Description: ff. 60 - Bound in late nineteenthcentury blind-stamped morocco over wooden boards, signed "DUQUESNE A GAND" inside upper cover, parchment endleaves; in a fawn cloth case. - Franciscan convent of Arras (founded in 1223), with their contemporary inscription on fol. 60v (partly trimmed), "liber iste fratrum minorum Attrebatensis. qui furatus fuerit non absolvatur nisi eis restituat ablatum" and, late thirteenth century,"hic est liber fratrom minorum Attrebati"; signature on fols. 1r and 58v, "De monchaulx", early sixteenth century (perhaps related to Gilles Moncheaulx, who signed Arras, Bibliothèque municipale, ms 728, in 1565); bound in Ghent by François Duquesne (1830-1902); given to the Lilly Library by Mrs. Thelma Sansberry, 1984. Part 1: ff. 1-60. Description: - Parchment - 235 x 164 mm - Once of approximately 270 leaves, 235 mm. by 164 mm., collation: i–vii8, viii4, with signatures in plummet ‘xxxii’–‘xxxiiii’ at ends of present quires iv–vi; 2 columns, ruled in plummet, 40 lines, 2 columns, each column 180 mm. by 54 mm. with 12 mm. between columns, prickings in both margins, script beginning above top ruled line.

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